You understand how necessary the priesthood is to me, and I have sworn not to make any attempt on Pentaur's life; but, I repeat it, he stands in my way.

I have my spies in the House of Seti, and I know through them what the sending of the poet to Chennu really means.

For a time they will let him hew sandstone, and that will only improve his health, for he is as sturdy as a tree.

In Chennu, as you know, besides the quarries there is the great college of priests, which is in close alliance with the temple of Seti.

When the flood begins to rise, and they hold the great Nile-festival in Chennu, the priests there have the right of taking three of the criminals who are working in the quarries into their house as servants.